These 10 activities will help establish the foundation
for your Dragon to begin to learn in class. Many are “review” for what has been learned in school so
far. Some are repeats of what may
have been or will be given for homework.
Just consider it reinforcement of skills.
You do not have to do all of them, nor do you have to
do them in the order they are written.
You do not have to turn them in to me but if you want your Dragon to
receive “extra credit”, please do. Please do not do any “research” on line as I
know what has been taught and I am looking for how well your child remembers
what we are doing.
Just use a spiral notebook. Turn it in on the last Friday of the month and I will have
it ready for you the following Monday.
1.
Practice opening your snack
packages again. Remember to pinch and pull.
2.
Need something to do in a
car while you are driving? Give
your child two or three syllable words.
Have them clap the parts.
3.
Once your child can clap
the parts of a word, say a two or three syllable word in its parts and have
your child put it “to-geth-er”.
Please make them familiar words…the names of his or her friends are a
great place to start. Use his or hers first.
4.
Now that your Dragon can
put words together from listening to the syllables, try it with the individual
sounds. Start with simple CVC
(consonant-vowel-consonant) words and build up. Examples are…
·
T r ee
·
c a n
5.
Review all the letters of
the alphabet. How many more are
known now?
6.
Now that the letter names
have been reviewed, try to see how many sounds are known. Please remember that a c sounds like a
k, not an s. All vowels are
short. The sound of g is not that
of j…it is the same one that is heard at the beginning of guard.
7.
Have your child write his
or her first name. Make sure they
start with a capital and pull down.
The initial letter is the only one that is a capital. All the rest are lower case letters.
8.
Give your child a group
of pennies. How high can they
count?
9.
Give your child pennies,
nickels and dimes. How many
different types of patterns can they create?
10.
What does your child know
about eco – systems?